THE SEASON OF JOB 2

I spoke about the season of Job, a time of losing and gaining, and in how as human beings we seem to have forgotten the manner in which time waits for no man.

It continues to move and most of us want to move with the time, we want to get everything in ‘order’ because we believe it is in our power to control our lives. What am I saying? I am saying it is one thing to fight for opportunities, to fight to make things work in a society that always has the odds stacked up against you. It is also another thing to waste your resilience, to use your power at the wrong time and in the wrong place – that is with a mask on. We were all created to be a success, to be successful and it is in our will that we may become so. And yet, for many of us, COVID-19 has stripped us off the things that defined our success.

This pandemic has taken everything and given us the responsibility to fix things we did not break and it is because of this reason that we push all the blame to government. It is easier to have someone to blame, to believe that everything should be in the hands of someone if not ours. The drastic changes in the economy were unexpected and who do we have to blame for that? Who do we hold responsible for the aftermath of this pandemic?

While many will respond, most will expect government to be the one to claim accountability for the mess we are faced with, which goes to show that as people we have an inclined need for accountability. It is in having someone to blame that we feel relieved from the responsibility to make things right or to work towards fixing things. The season of Job is fortunately one that really has no one to blame, it is the peak period of self-improvement. It is a time where ego meets insecurity and now you have to ask yourself why you believe it is that job that determined your value.

Resolved

You have to start asking why it is staying at home that you have resolved you are meaningless. What does that say about you? This says we have been dressing up our insecurities in ego, that we have held a front of confidence and brand of opulence to hide the problems we need to deal with as individuals. That we have deduced ourselves to the grief we refuse to let go of and just like Job, once the ego is undressed we are forced to deal with the insecurities left by the grief we held on to. And just like Job spent so much time blaming God and asking for reasons from Him, we stand here and ask for reasons from government.

We want government to give us what we have lost in this pandemic, we want government to restore all the things that we lost and instead of removing our ego and coming to terms with our grief so that the things we have lost can be regained in a place that is not wearing a mask. You loved that job? You loved that house you must move out of and go back home to start afresh? You want your wife to be happy? You can still have the things you love even when you take the mask off this time, without the ego and without the grief that redefined what it meant to keep these things in your life.

Humble

That if Job didn’t take off the ego and grieve and that if he didn’t humble himself in the darkness then he wouldn’t have realised how much he had. And unlike Job, we still have the opportunity, we have everything we wish for to still attain success, to keep that job you love, to make your wife happy, to buy that house again only if we undress ourselves and let go of the grief. It is light that drives out darkness and to see ourselves as we were created to be. To be happy with everything we have we must undress the ego and address the grief even if it is painful, like Job did and we will see the light. We will start to experience everything we have happily, we will learn how to take accountability and we will know how to identify ourselves and how being alone in the dark is a sign that there is an ego that needs to be taken off our identity, that there is a layer hiding the grief we need to let go of to enjoy the success and blessings we were born for.

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